Bioinformatic Facility/User Survey
Dear Colleagues:
As we are expanding and enhancing our GCG and other bioinformatic
computational services, we would like to share the experience with you for
hardware choice, software upgrade, and customer service.
This is an academic survey on bioinformatics, not for marketing purpose. All
your answers will be kept confidential. You are guaranteed to get a result
summary from this survey within 14 days of your feedback.
Please take a few minutes (estimated time: 2 min) to fill the following
survey. and return this e-mail to:
lin00025 at mc.duke.edu
Please feel free to forward this survey to appropriate persons in your
organization and/or other bioinformatic practitioners.
I would also like to keep personal contact with you and share the experience
of maintaining GCG and other services in academia. We are currently
evaluating SGI Origin 200 and GCG SeqWeb.
Best Regards,
Simon Lin, M.D.
Box 3958, Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710
Ph: (919) 681-9646
FAX: (919) 681-8028
lin00025 at mc.duke.edu
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SURVEY: BIOINFORMATIC SHARED FACILITY
for GCG users/ System administrators/ Bioinformatisists
(1/21/99)
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Please return this survey by e-mail lin00025 at mc.duke.edu
OR by FAX 919-681-8028, Attn: Simon Lin
If there are some information you are not sure, feel free to skip it or put
estimation.
Thank you for your time!
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1. GCG version(s):
[ ] SeqLab
[ ] SeqWeb
[ ] SeqStore
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2. Other bioinformatic Packages/Tools:
[ ] PHYLIP
[ ] HHMER
[ ] EGCG (EMBOSS)
[ ] CLUSTALW/X
[ ] Others (please specify):
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3. Scientific Users in the shared bioinformatic facility:
Number of total potential users:
Average number of users simultaneously connected:
Do you charge a user fee? If so, how much a year?
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4. Hardware Performance:
Satisfied?
How long would you general wait for FASTA/BLAST/ProfileSearch/FindPatterns?
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5. Hardware for Bioinformatics:
* Platform:
# of CPUs:
OS:
Memory:
Disk Space:
Swap Space:
Tape Backup:
Your Reason to choose this configuration:
* How old is this computational facility? planning to upgrade?
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6. End-User Education:
UNIX course?
GCG course?
Help-desk for GCG?
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7. employee support for GCG:
# of UNIX administrators:
# of Database administrators:
# of Programmers:
# of Bioinformatic Specialists:
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8. What are the other software packages / Tools you provide?
Desktop-
[ ] Omega
[ ] VectorNTI
[ ] MacVector
[ ] Others (please specify):
Others-
[ ] Modeling packages
[ ] Data Mining (SGI MineSet etc)
[ ] Others (please specify):
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9. System Security/Hackers?
# of hackers you found or suspect in the past one year:
have you taken any actions to prevent hacking?
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10. Bioinformatic Center/Computational Lab Setup
# of high-end terminals / workstations (SGI O2):
Brand of Color Printer:
Choice of X-emulator on PCs:
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11. Any other comments?
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URL of your bioinformatic computing service:
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All about You (Optional)
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* Name and Contact #:
* Email:
* Your role:
THANK YOU!!!